Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn turned 12 years old this week—pause while I crumble into dust. Alongside a sweet ol’ video message from director and producer Naoki Yoshida came the news I and many others have been waiting for: dates and locations for this expansion’s Fan Festivals. There are two reasons these dates are…
Final Fantasy 14′s going to be moving on from Dawntrail… uh, eventually, given the MMO’s recent troubles with patch cadence. But still, having played through 7.3, I’m genuinely quite hopeful for the game’s storyline to kick up again. I had an uncomplicated good time pushing Calyx’s stupid mug in, and it feels like Square’s slowly…
World of Warcraft’s Worldsoul Saga is gonna be a big’un—in case phrases like “Midnight”, “The Last Titan”, or, indeed, “Worldsoul” were any indication, this trio of expansion packs are focusing on some pretty intense story beats. The void wielded by Xal’atath, harbinger of the old gods; the Sunwell, a font of incredible power, under threat….
Konami sure is an odd company. On the one hand, it seems almost desperate to assure Metal Gear fans that—no, really—it has nothing but love and worship for the Metal Gears of old, and that it can be trusted to steward the series into the future. On the other, it’s pathologically averse to ever saying…
There’s nothing like a gaming and tech expo to show just how behind the curve you are. At least, that was how I felt coming away from Gamescom last week. Perhaps surprisingly, though, what made me feel most like this was seeing all the new PC cases, whether they were part of pre-builts or standalone….
All will be made available on “new platforms”. Atari and Ubisoft have announced that Atari has acquired the IP rights to five Ubisoft-published games with a view to make them available on new platforms. The games in question are Cold Fear, I Am Alive, Child of Eden, Grow Home, and Grow Up. Notably, none of…
“If I stayed at Sega any longer, l’d die soon”. The world of Japanese video game development has never been an easy one, but during the ’80s and ’90s it was especially harsh, at least for the staff of certain studios. As documented in Time Extension contributor John Szczepaniak’s peerless ‘Untold History’ series of books,…
Marcos Healey left Media Molecule back in 2023. The Media Molecule co-founder Marcos Healey might have left the company back in 2023, but he is still hard at work on LittleBigPlanet. That is, his Commodore 64 demake of the game. Recently, on Twitter/X, he offered another update on the project that has been in development…
DL-Seen and not DL-Heard. We are quickly closing in on 2025′ next high-profile arcade racer, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, and SEGA keeps adding more and more characters to its rapidly expanding roster. Those loaded up on the game’s Season Pass and DLC will see the likes of Steve and Alex from Minecraft, SpongeBob SquarePants and Persona…
Originally launched in Japan in 1999. Human Entertainment’s Clock Tower is one of the most influential survival horror titles of the ’90s, and has thankfully been given a new lease of life recently thanks to the release of Clock Tower Rewind. The original Super Famicom game was ported to the PS1, but it also came…